Duelling Example Thread

[Caelani Bittel]

The duelling rules have been updated since I wrote this. It's not completely useless, but some of the stuff (like luna's advanced blocking charm) is inaccurate.



Luna's posts will be in light cyan blue.
Neville's posts will be in light red.
Comments will be in normal text colour.


Luna had seen a new duelling arena in Diagon Alley. She decided to have a look, because it reminded her of all the fun she'd had when she joined Dumbledore's Army at school.

After paying the money for membership she looked around to see if there was anyone around to duel with.


"...she looked around to see if there was anyone around to duel with." Except in competition, all duels will be open to the first taker.

[Caelani Bittel]

Neville had come to Diagon Alley today to buy some chomping cabbages, but he had had no luck. The herbologist who'd contacted him via floo had run out of stock just hours before he'd arrived and as chomping cabbages were so hard to breed in this part of the world, it was unlikely he'd have any new stock for quite some time.

As he trudged back up the alley, a large, new building caught his eye. Already being lost in thoughts of Asian plant life, the design of the place appealed to Neville's aesthetic and he looked up to see that it was a duelling arena. Interesting.

Neville was taking a tour of the place when he recognised someone across the room.

"Luna!" he exclaimed. "Er, would you like to, um..."

He gestured to the duelling platforms that were scattered around the room.


Notice how nobody is casting spells yet? You can't start duelling till an adjudicator tells you to begin.

[Caelani Bittel]

Calli saw some people milling around in the duelling chamber. They probably wanted a duel, and since the only staff member of this place so far was herself, that meant she'd have to go oversee them.

She went up to the platform they'd chosen and smiled warmly. No need to scare away her first customers.

"I assume vetrans like you know formal duelling rules," she said, gesturing to a large yellow sign showing a figure bowing, or falling over, it was hard to tell.

"Well, best of luck. Begin."


After you've posted your introduction, you should wait for me (or someone else if I get staff) to tell you to start. THIS IS IMPORTANT. If you don't wait, I'll assume the duel is underway and won't read your thread.

It also prevents the person joining the thread from double-posting to get first blood.

[Caelani Bittel]

"Oh hi, Neville," Luna stared at Neville's left ear. "Sure, it will probably scare the minkyfigs away. They seem very attracted to you."

Luna bowed to Neville and then raised her wand in the en garde position.

"Hmmmm... Allium Auris," she opened with the leek ear jinx.

defence: 100 - 0 (first blood) = 100
offence: Leek ear jinx
0 hits


Okay, these posts are going to get shorter now; that doesn't mean I think people RPing duels should write less in their duelling posts.

Notice the tally. Luna has 100 duelling points she deducts 0 points because she got first blood which means she doesn't have to block. She cast the leek ear jinx. She hasn't taken any hits.

The member 'Caelani Bittel.' has done the following action : Dices roll

'test' : 4, 5

[Caelani Bittel]

Neville bowed back and before he knew it, he was blocking Luna's first jinx. She had gotten good at this over the years.

"Stygus," he countered.

defense: 100 - 14 (basic blocking charm) = 86
offense : stinging hex
0 hits

4 + 5 = 9. From the dice roll, we can see that Luna's offense was worth 9 points. I'm going to pretend that Neville isn't as good at duelling as Luna, so he's going to need to block for 150% of that, which is 13.5 (multiply 9 by 1.5). Because I don't like fractions, we round that up to 14 (if I rounded down, he wouldn't have blocked it effectively).

Now, Neville uses the stinging hex, and he's going to roll the dice as well, but because we're pretending he's not as good at duelling as Luna, he's only going to roll 1 dice.

The member 'Caelani Bittel.' has done the following action : Dices roll

'test' : 2

[Caelani Bittel]

Luna felt bad. The minkyfigs must really be messing with Neville's focus for him to be doing so badly. She waved away his stinging hex easily and returned one of her own.

defence: 100 - 2 (advanced blocking charm) = 98
offense: stinging hex
0 hits

Luna only has to defend for the same amount as Neville's hex (100% of it's casting amount) because she is more advanced, so her blocking charm is easier for her to do.

The member 'Caelani Bittel.' has done the following action : Dices roll

'test' : 6, 3

[Caelani Bittel]

Neville blocked Luna's stinging hex and this time cast a hurling hex at her.

defence: 86 - 14 (basic blocking charm) = 72
offence: hurling hex
0 hits